Which rhetorical device is this? "it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

Which rhetorical device is this? "The cold and the damp and the hunger were all too much to bear."

Which rhetorical device is this? "While I accept the failings the right honourable lady has identified, now is the time for unity on such matters."

Which rhetorical device is this? "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Which rhetorical device is this? "At your age I would walk 5 miles to school. And sometimes when I got there, there wasn't even a school."

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Which rhetorical device is this?

I meant to

but never did go looking for him,

to buy him back

and now my old guilt is flooding this twilit table

my guilt is ghosting the candles that pale us to skeletons

the ones we must all become in an as yet unspecified order.

Oh Jack, tethered in what rough stall alone

did you remember that one good winter?

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Which rhetorical device is this? "This semester, students, you will learn every rhetorical device known on the planet, how to spell them, and where they come from."

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Which rhetorical device is this? "To err is human; to forgive divine."

When speakers or writers alter their tone or style is...

A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way is...

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Which rhetorical device is this?

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses is...

Which rhetorical device is this? "Friends for now, forever."

Attacking or insulting a person or thing through the use of abusive language and tone is...

A character achieveing realisation, awareness, or a feeling of knowledge, after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story is...